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Pandemic will just accelerate the change that was already happening.
High Street Retailers will go bust, as they cannot compete with online warehouse operators. Government will have to reduce the business rates significantly and landlords who own the shop buildings will need to reduce the rents they charge. Retailers will need to make changes to the layout of their shops to make them more attractive, as a leisure experience. If they are offering just racks or shelfs of goods, consumers may think they are not getting anything extra than if they bought online.
As more people work from home, they will be available for home deliveries, so online retailers will gain the sales. The high streets where these homeworkers use to work close to will lose sales.
Travel sector including airlines will see many go bust, more so, if there is a second wave of the virus. Holidays based in peoples home countries or in neighbouring countries will be more popular. Caravans, motorhome sales are going to see massive increases, as people want their own clean spaces. And caravan parks will see more demand as a consequence, but will have to update facilities.
Pretty much every sector of the economy is going to see the biggest changes they have ever gone through and in a very short space of time.

This article in the Indy has some interesting views on how Brexit has affected the Uk's response to Covid.
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/coronavirus-lockdown-government-death-toll-boris-johnson-a9551516.html

Small attachment to an iPhone that cost £288.00.
I know anything that relates to Apple can be very expensive, but what was the attachment ?
Did you return the attachment product in its original packaging ?
How often do you buy products from Amazon ?
How often do you return products to Amazon ?
Could Amazon believe you are buying products to simply try out for a period, with no intention of keeping the products ?

So I make a post and ask you some questions and you then go in and make a response which deals with something completely different and which ignores the questions which I have asked completely.
I don't see how we can move forward on that basis

Thank you.
First of all, this is not chronology so we don't have any sense of the timeline.
It's still rather complicated – but maybe when you produce a chronology it will come more into focus.
However, there are a few things that we can start to tease out.
You say that you accepted £250 in an offer which was intended to reflect distress. Although you say that you accepted this offer mistakenly, it may well be that you have no further rights on this issue because of course it would have been up to you to understand the situation properly before accepting any kind of financial offer.
However, it would be useful to understand the reach of this offer and so please could you post up the offer letter by uploading it in PDF format.
You say that "high-volume messaging" is not explicitly covered in the terms and conditions – but there may be references to "fair use policy" and it may be an interpretive problem rather than looking for words which specifically match your situation. So it will be helpful to know what words Vodafone were relying upon and also what was the extent of your high-volume messaging. Did they give you any warnings.
You say that they referred to terms and conditions which you did not sign. However, it isn't necessary to sign terms and conditions. We would have to understand more about the context – but generally speaking if there is an agreement which refers to terms and conditions from the outset and you then embark upon the agreement and use the services, then all the signs would be that you've accepted the conditions of use. Signed written terms and conditions are generally speaking only required in contracts for property or copyright or shares.
You say that the contract was put in your sole name despite the fact that the company name was on the agreement. We don't have a chronology so we don't see how long this went on for and you don't explain why you didn't raise any objections to this – or maybe you did?
You say that you have sent Vodafone and Lowell an SAR but "so far" you are waiting for a response. This suggests that you sent the SAR some time ago – but you haven't told us anything about when this might have happened.
You are referring to obligations under the Consumer Rights Act but I'm afraid that these obligations refer to contracts between a trader and a consumer – and you are not trading as a consumer so these probably wouldn't apply to you.
Finally, you are worried about expressing a claim in legal language. If you begin a small claim then you certainly don't need any legal language – and in fact that kind of approach simply gets in the way. Also, it seems to me that you are gearing up to bring a court claim – which is fine, in my book – but you haven't identified your cause or causes of action and you don't have a plan.
I think we need to slow down and have a more careful and methodical look at the situation. Otherwise you're simply going to find yourself in trouble

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on 9th of Sep 2016 I contacted Vodafone to move one of our contract number to payAsYouGo and i was told it normally take 30 days.

on 16th Sep i received an email if i paid £68.18 early release charge it will be as pay as you and I accepted the payment to be on our bill and received an email that the number was made as payAsyouGo and a sim is on the way.

I kept on calling and going to VF branch but with fail, I spent minimum one hour to explain to each representative about my case but with. fai .

I sent a written complain and followed by phone call and last friday11 Nov 2016 one of their call centre told me that I just needed to buy a new payAsyouGo sim with £10 credit and use it and call them back to port my old number to this new number. very simple and easy.

I called today after spending one hour and half the guy told me that the number was cancelled and it is no longer with vodafone.

but I can see on our last month bills as it was billed the with last amount.

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Hi and welcome to CAG. I have added a Twitter link to your post so that the media team will get an alert.

If you are able to record phone calls, I suggest ringing them and raising this as a complaint. They may have given your number to someone else rather than not being on their system.

I also suggest following this up with a written Formal Complaint sent by snail mail to their head office but get it sent by Signed For Delivery.

If you do record them on your phone, you have no need to tell them however if you want to publish the recording you will need permission. You can publish a transcript of the conversation but you must remove all names.

You may recall that VF got hit by the largest fine for a telecoms company. This is due to the way they dealt with customers when they moved from one system to another and basically screwed up the data along the way causing untold misery for thousands. They are getting better but I suspect it will be a while before they get their act together.

What you want is that they find and re-issue your phone number, an apology for their poor performance and a decent Gesture of Goodwill for the trouble THEY have put you through.

If it becomes needed, a complaint to the CEO may elicit the right result

If you are asked to deal with any matter via private message, PLEASEreport it.

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Irritating as it is, the mobile operators only ever loan you "your number", and their terms and conditions make it plain you have no rights to keep it.

That said, push hard to get them to retrieve it for you.

Act quickly, as they can "recycle" numbers, but don't usually do so straight away, so the sooner you act the better.

Whilst you do not have any legal "right" to "your number", so many people (& businesses) would be outraged at loosing tbeir number through no fault of their own. (My number I've had for over 20 years!, including the move from 09* to 079*, and it would hurt to loose it!).

So, hit Voda where it hurts : in the profit line.

Share your story on social media : if you only post verifiable truth, Voda can't prevent it or sue. Make sure people see it and think twice about using Voda : it may spur Voda into resolving the situation, rather than them leaving it with a succession of (uniformed / unable) first line support staff.

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You cannot port within a company, you would have to port to another network and then port back to vodafone.

If your contract was paid up and at its end, ut would normally revert to being a sim only, 30 day rolling contract which can easily be converted to payg within vodafone, no need to port anything and takes no more than 24 hrs with most providers.